Long-Term Solutions emphasizing community involvement distinguish our work from that of global relief organizations.“Passing on the Gift” means recipients agree to share the offspring of gift animals with others in need, making them equal partners with Heifer in the fight to end world hunger.

The assets of the world’s three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.

For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years

Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion – a majority of humanity – live on less than $1 per day, while the world’s 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world’s people. UNICEF

37% of food bank users are children; 293,677 children relied on donated food in 2009One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.

The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you’ve entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.

3,252,134 million meals were served by food banks with meal programs in one month in 2009

To satisfy the world’s sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.